English grammar drills part 4 pdf
... quiet. Our dinner is ready. The verb be is by far the most common linking verb. The predicate adjective in linking verb sentences is used to give information about the subject. In the three ... (food) chicken (count): There were a dozen chickens in the yard. (living animals) Exercise 1.5 All of the underlined nouns in the following sentences are in the plural. Some plurals are cor- rectly used ... adjectives in the broad sense because they both modify nouns. For example, they modify the noun cars in the fol- lowing sentences: Slow cars should stay in the right lane. The cars in the left...
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English grammar drills part 9 pdf
... reporter in China broke the story about the peace talks. 5. The door in the dining room really needs a new coat of paint. 6. They had a big victory despite all the odds. 7. A new painting by the English ... don’t think you have met before. 7. We need to replace the window (the window’s) glass was broken in the storm. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 53 3/16/09 12:34:00 PM 52 Noun Phrases 17. Berlin, ... clauses in the following sentences have been underlined. Replace the word(s) in parentheses with the appropriate relative pronoun. whom The actor (the actor) I met last year is now starring in a...
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English grammar drills part 12 pdf
... about where she had left her/hers in the classroom. We need to be careful when we use the masculine and feminine singular pronouns he and she. There is no problem using he to refer to males and ... were called to a special meeting. 4. My brother intends to continue to run the farm that we inherited from our parents. 5. The screenwriter for that movie has been nominated for an Academy Award. ... The pronominal forms (mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, theirs) act as true pronouns in the sense that they can play the standard noun roles of subject, object, and complement of linking verbs....
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English grammar drills part 14 pdf
... believing. One of the hardest things about identifying gerunds is telling apart a verb in a progressive tense from a gerund that follows a linking verb. For example, compare the following sentences: Progressive ... working as an intern for six months. it Before doing anything, you have to strip all the old paint off the wall. it We fi nally quit around seven after finishing the proposal. it My main concern ... do everything. 10. We barely avoided sliding into the ditch. 11. Arriving at the airport a couple of hours early turned out to be a really good thing. 12. We all voted for ordering in pizza. ...
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English grammar drills part 22 pdf
... stative verbs incorrectly used in the present progressive: X I am hating spinach. X They are doubting the truth of what you say. X He was having a laptop at the time. X We were liking your proposal. X ... or period in time. For example: By 9 a.m. I was working at my desk. At noon we were fi xing lunch. During the afternoon, we were having drinks on the terrace. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 145 ... in any of the progressive tenses. Here is an example in the present tense: Action verb: John is driving a car. Stative verb: X John is owning a car. The meanings of stative verbs make them incompatible...
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English grammar drills part 33 pdf
... yes-no questions and negatives in modern English. ) This intermediate sentence now contains an auxiliary verb that can be inverted in the nor- mal way to produce an ordinary yes-no question: John ... it. Did he return it? It rained. It did rain. Did it rain? I care. I do care. Do I care? Exercise 13.3 Turn the following statements into yes-no questions using the do insertion rule to form an ... they be home late? You are leaving tonight. Are you leaving tonight? He has lost his mind. Has he lost his mind? Only a handful of verbs can be used in forming inverted yes-no questions. The...
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... birds in the disappearing b I trouble with that car the whole of the time I owned it. 2 a As a historian, I'm interested in how people in the past. b During that hard winter, people by selling ... considering taking early retirement. (This is something I'm thinking about now) ã The children love having Jean stay with us. (They love it when Jean stays) and ã The children are loving having ... She's carrying (or was carrying) a bag full of shopping We can also use the present simple and present continuous like this in commentaries (for example, on sports events) and in giving instructions: ã...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC RULES IN A TREE ADJOINING GRAMMAR" pdf
... 'LEXICALIZED' GRAMMARS 1.1 Lexicalizing Phrase Structure rules In most current linguistic theories the information put in the lexicon has been increased in both amount and complexity. Viewing constituent ... rules bearing on LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC RULES IN A TREE ADJOINING GRAMMAR Anne Abeill6* LADL and UFRL University of Paris 7-Jussieu abeille@zeta.ibp.fr ABSTRACT according to this definition ... Tree Adjoining Grammar. The extended domain of locality of TAGs also allows one to 'lexicalize' syntactic rules while defining them at the level of constituent structures. 1 INTRODUCTION...
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English Grammar''''s archiveAdverbs- Position in sentenceQ1 pdf
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Cambrige University Press English Grammar in Use-Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students
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